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Impactful Individualnew power bi licensing
Hi dilumd
Here are my answers to your questions
- Going forward you will have to have Power BI Pro to share dashboards. If you use the Free Version you are still able to publish to the Power BI Service, but you will not be able to share it with anyone.
- Going forward if you want to share the recipients of your dashboards will have to have the Pro or Premium licensing enabled.
- Under free they are going to give it the same capabilites as the Pro version, with one BIG change that there will be no sharing.
- For any access to viewing other peoples dashboards you will require the Pro or Premium licenses.
You can find more details here for the licensing
So this means that if you have 5 people developing PBI Reports and Dashboards and 95+ who just Consume reports that refresh Daily and/or don't use any of the sexy things that apparently PBI Pro offers ( https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-power-bi-pro-content-what-is-it/ ), you would now be paying $50 US per month but after June 1 you would have to pay $1000+ per month :-) ... even if you never use today's Power BI Pro features.
Simple math and kinda sucks frankly ... Good luck selling that to management ;-)
**bleep**
Advocate IISo this means that if you have 5 people developing PBI Reports and Dashboards and 95+ who just Consume reports that refresh Daily and/or don't use any of the sexy things that apparently PBI Pro offers ( https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-power-bi-pro-content-what-is-it/ ), you would now be paying $50 US per month but after June 1 you would have to pay $1000+ per month :-) ... even if you never use today's Power BI Pro features.
Simple math and kinda sucks frankly ... Good luck selling that to management ;-)
**bleep**
Advocate IIIThis sure feels like a bait and switch scam. . .
gmosierAdvocate I
I really wish Microsoft didn't require end users to have a license to use the fruits of a developer's labor. If there's any single thing that's going to cause us to move from Power BI to Tableau-- which is currently under consideration-- it's that. Now that Tableau has modified their pricing to a reasonable monthly cost, I think the Powers That Be will likely conclude that it makes a lot more sense (and is probably much less expensive) to buy a few $70 Pro developer licenses than try to worry about dozens of $10 licenses for all possible end users. And I pray that I won't be asked to pony up for a subscription to the C++ compiler the next time a new version of Outlook is released.
While I am echoing all of the upset people on this thread I view this new PowerBI pricing model as Microsoft has got into the Ransomware game. This is clearly a bait and switch tactic. I think the adoption of PowerBI would have been very low if they clearly communicated that the free version was only a trial. We have spent thousands of dollars developing a management system based on PowerBI assuming that Power BI would be free to use for staff that just needed to view that data a few times per week.
This is legal ransomware. Microsoft baited companies like mine to spending thousands of dollars under false pretenses and then surprise, now you need to pay thousands of dollars more every month just to view YOUR data.
I have been a big advocate of Office 365 but now I am questioning what other surprises Microsoft will have down the road. BUYER BEWARE!!!!! Time to slow down our commitment to Office 365 and start seriously considering Google Business. Microsoft has lost my trust.
I feel exactly the same way.
This new licensing model has paved the way for moving my company reportying to Tableau.
There is no way we will pay $10 a month for hundreds of potential users just to check a report for 5 minutes a week. A reasonable licensing plan would be requiring a more expensive Pro account for authoring but free accounts for viewing, as it used to be, I wouldn't mind paying a higher price, given it would be only 5 or 10 authors.
We are basically using PowerBI because it came with Office 365. If we have to pay thousands of euros a month we will just move to Tableau, that offers a truly finished product, support, and a much better user interface.
Microsoft just lost any future BI business from us here.
